WP Customer Reviews Version 3

WP Customer Reviews WordPress Plugin will be rolled out soon. The developers and beta testers are still working/testing on Version 3’s features. WP Customer Review’s fans has been longing for this update. In fact, there are many questions and suggestions has been made on their support section.

Luckily, I was one of the fortunate people who has been accepted as a beta tester of WP Customer Reviews V3.

WP Customer Reviews Demo

On this post, I’ll try to show you the demo version of the plugin. You can try to submit a review to check some of its updated functionality.

Shortcode

This shortcode may be subject to change without notice since this post was created before the final version 3 release.

Auto Approve Feature

I haven’t tested this yet if it has auto approve feature. As far as I know you have to manually approve each review.

Email Notification

For recent reviews, you’ll receive and email notification on the default or admin email on your WordPress account.

Custom post types

I think you can use the shortcode instead or you can this line on your codes:

My Review

WP Customer Reviews Plugin Version 3 is a powerful customer review system in WordPress. I was using this plugin even before version 2.4.8, and there is one thing I can say – it is highly SEO friendly. Google understands its markup and even displays rich snippets on the search results. Version 3 is the best customer review plugin in WordPress today.

Google Mark-up Testing

Aggregate Rating

Before, WP Customer Reviews has no built-in aggregate rating feature. So you have to mannually code it on Php to access the database, and get the data reviews such as the total number of reviews and calculation of the average. In version three, they already added the feature and it works perfect!

This is just a preview image….see the real review below

Premium – Pro Version Of The Plugin

The WP Customer Reviews pro version features will be announced soon after the beta testing is completed.

About The Author

6 Comments

Baloydi,
I agree that WPCR in its pre-Version 3 has several fine features.

One particularly galling deficit however, was its inability to reliably provide hReview “aggregate” markup. Specifically, when using the WPCR shortcode and its options to display reviews in a sidebar, it failed to pass analysis by Google’s Structured Data Markup tool.

Did you, or could you, test the V3 plugin with several customer reviews to see if it will now pass this test correctly?

Another defect that was serious was WPCR’s inability to be “enabled” or have shortcode “inserted” on pages that already had text or other content on them. Is this instance one that you checked, or could check?

Making these specific tests and reporting on them would be greatly interesting to many WPCR users and potential users.

Hello Dennis,
I already added some reviews above to check the aggregate rating feature.
Also tested the data on Google and I can see that there are no errors generated. To make sure I’ll wait until Google will re-crawl this page to verify the validity of the markup used for this review plugin.
For the shortcode, the authors of the plugin already added a feature that will let you disable or enable the plugin using a “checkbox”.

Hello- is it possible to use the shortcode only without adding the reviews to the bottom of the page? I found that by not checking off:
‘Enable WP Customer Reviews’ for this page, also doesn’t allow the use of the shortcode only, any advice how to fix?